Improvement in egg-carriee



@einem f @Mire ABNER 1H. BRYANT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 101,092, dated March 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom'fit Imay concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER H. BRYANT, oi' Chicago, in the county of Cookand' State of Illinois, have invented anew and valuable Improvement inEgg- Carriers; and I do `hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of thisspeei' iication, and to the letters and gnres of reference n'arkedthereon. t

My invention relates to means for packing and transporting eggs, andconsists in the construction and nov-e1 arrangement of cells of paper,or other proper able length to form a series of three or more, and

mold them upon aformcr until they assume the shape represented on lg.;l.

l` then cut slots in .the bottom of one strip and in the top of theother, and unite.

them, when they assume the shape shown on fig. 1. The slots abovementioned are shown by letter a. The letter c represents ears or lugsformed in the ends of these strips 1'espectively,-and adapted to passthrough openings in the holding-box, to hold the rows of cells inposition.

My quadrangular cells are formed by xtaking two strips of proper length,and molding and bending them in shape until they assume the formrepresented on g. 3.

While in process of forming, and before being ready to place in its box,this serios -of cells has the shape represented on lig. 4.

When completed and in Aplace these cells have the form shown in iig. 5,with a double wall between cach of the cells.

The circular and quadrangular cells herein described, constructedrespectively of double strips, molded and bent into 'form as described,and provided with the lugs a, as and for the purpose specied.

ABNER II. BRYANT.

lWitnesses z VILLETTE ANDERSON, CHAs. Knxron.

